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Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday, residents and the military said, after nearly three weeks of tension in the area.

Earlier in August a group of rogue settlers began blocking supplies from entering Palestinian houses on the outskirts of the village near Nablus, trapping residents inside and drawing domestic and international condemnation.

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Weeks later, Israeli forces continue to operate in the area while settlers still roam the surrounding hills.

On Saturday, Qusra resident Yussef Abdul Kareem Hassan told AFP that a handful of villagers were doing work on a house when they were approached by a small group of settlers.

The settlers then called for backup and returned with dozens more, Hassan said, adding that they had surrounded the Palestinians inside the house and began throwing stones.

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Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has explained his own strategy more candidly than any critic could. 

Antisemitism, he told an interviewer, does not much interest the average European or American, whereas fear of "radical Islam" interests them "very, very much", and Israel therefore needs "to take advantage of that".

Here is a senior cabinet minister admitting that Islamophobia has become a Trojan Horse for Israel to win over European and American hearts and minds.

And it is the clearest account yet of what his ministry has become under Benjamin Netanyahu; an office that once existed to protect Jewish communities abroad now works to turn European fear of Muslims into political capital for the Israeli government.

His ministry was built for the opposite work.

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Ahmed Zeidat was tending his olive trees in the occupied West Bank when a group of Israeli settlers came charging towards him.

They punched him in the face and stomach. Zeidat fled on his tractor, with the settlers in pursuit.

Israeli soldiers eventually intervened, removing the settlers - and detaining Zeidat.

His offence, he was told, was being on his own land.

“When I asked the officer why I was being detained, he told me I was on private land that I wasn’t allowed to access,” the Palestinian farmer told Middle East Eye.

Bemused, Zeidat said: “This land is mine. How did it become private, and who does it belong to?”

The soldier, according to Zeidat, replied: “It belongs to us, and you’re not allowed to enter it.”

After a brief detention, Zeidat was released and ordered not to return.

“My land, the fruit of my labour and toil, is forbidden to me,” he said.

“It used to give me 600 kilos of pure olive oil. Now I look at it from afar. I can’t even look, because my heart aches.”

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Zvi Sukkot, a member of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, was filmed smashing the Palestinian Martyrs' Monument in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, with a sledgehammer.

In a video posted to Facebook, Sukkot said the memorial commemorated two Palestinians who had killed Israelis and argued that it could not be allowed to remain.

“We must take it down,” he said, adding that he wanted the memorial destroyed because children growing up in the village and passing it would be inspired to become “martyrs” themselves.

Sukkot, who chairs the Knesset Education Committee, was accompanied by Israeli military forces during the incident, despite the army later saying that the destruction had not been authorised.

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Israel may have committed war crimes in a double-tap attack on a Gaza hospital that killed Palestinian journalists, medics and first responders, an investigation by The Independent has found.

The strikes on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on 25 August 2025 killed 20 people, including Middle East Eye contributors Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz, and The Independent correspondent Mariam Abu Dagga.

The first strike hit Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri as he operated his camera, killing him.

Journalists, medics and first responders rushed to the scene to report on the attack and help the wounded. Eight minutes later, as a large crowd gathered, two more projectiles were fired from Israeli tanks at the group.

The second strike, which killed 19 people, was captured on live television.

International law experts told The Independent that the attack raised serious concerns over potential war crimes, including the intentional targeting of civilians and the launching of a disproportionate attack. They said the second strike was of particular concern.

Israel denies committing war crimes in Gaza and has repeatedly said it does not target journalists. 

At the time, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over alleged war crimes, described the incident as a “tragic mishap”.

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The documentary American Doctor is an intimate and unflinching look at the decimated healthcare system in Gaza under Israeli assault.

The film follows three American surgeons on medical missions to the Palestinian territory and documents them treating wounded men, women and children. It also shares the trials of their Palestinian colleagues trying to live through bombardments, displacement and lack of food and medicine while working on casualties streaming into hospitals that often come under attack.It's not all based in Gaza. The film follows the three Americans at home as well, and their efforts to share what they've seen, especially given that Israel has barred international journalists from entering Gaza and reporting independently for the entirety of this war.

The film begins with director Poh Si Teng speaking with orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter in his North Carolina home. He shows her a photo of six Palestinian babies and children, lined up in a row. They've all been killed.

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